The D-Day Con

REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime, History

4.3 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In the tense months leading up to D-Day, a daring plan was set in motion to mislead the Nazis about where and when the invasion would take place. British intelligence recruited a motley crew of double agents, including a Spanish chicken farmer, a Serbian playboy, and a temperamental Russian-French journalist. As conflicting loyalties, personal grudges, and the weight of history collided, their actions would help determine the fate of one of the largest invasions in history.

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0:14.8	On May 27, 1944, the Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany, Hiroshi Oshima, sat down to tea at a Grand Mountain retreat in the Austrian Alps with Adolf Hitler.
0:31.6	Hiroshi had become an important player within the alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy that had plunged the globe into World
0:38.4	War II. He was a sharp strategist and a true believer in the Nazi ideology, apart from the
0:44.8	inconvenient fact that the Nazis view Japanese people as inferior beings. In perfect German,
0:51.4	Hiroshi asked Hitler what he thought about the possibility of an invasion of Nazi-occupied Western Europe by the United States, Great Britain, and the other Allied forces.
1:01.0	Hitler waved his hand as though he was swatting a fly.
1:05.0	He said he knew all about the Allied troops building up in the southeast of England.
1:09.0	He was sure that they were preparing to invade the Pa-de-Calle region of England, he was sure that they were preparing
1:11.3	to invade the Pa de Calais region of France near the Belgian border, but he wasn't worried.
1:17.1	The Nazi army would be well prepared to stop them and wipe them out for good.
1:21.7	Hitler said he'd heard there might also be an attack some 200 miles to the south along the French
1:26.2	coast at Normandy, but this would
1:28.1	almost surely be a diversion from the main invasion in Padikile. He boasted to Hiroshi about the
1:34.0	vast network of German spies in England that had confirmed the Allied plans. Hiroshi
1:39.3	beamed at Hitler's confidence. He told Hitler he was sure the Germans and the Japanese would soon beat the
1:44.7	Allies into submission. He thanked his host for the hospitality and left. After the meeting,
1:51.6	Hiroshi wrote up a summary of the discussion, which he eagerly radioed to his colleagues in Japan.
1:57.2	He never imagined that someone else would be intercepting and reading the message.
2:01.8	The Americans had broken the encrypted Japanese wireless code over two years earlier.
2:06.5	They had been listening in on the bulk of Japan's communication for nearly all of the war.
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